Mr. Graham Doyle:

Ms Graham will provide a more up-to-date costing on buses. The challenge and choice we have had in recent years, as the Chair mentioned, has been whether we want to buy one efficiently fuelled bus and get one busload of people out of their cars, or whether we should buy three buses and get three busloads of people out of their cars. That has been the challenge to date. Some of that is now balancing out. The buses bought recently and now are at the existing Euro-6 standard, which is a major improvement on some of the buses in the fleet. That is an important point.

Ms Behan will deal with some of the points raised about electric vehicles and Ms Graham will discuss park-and-ride facilities. There will be a significant investment over the next three years in public transport, amounting to €2.6 billion and rising to €8.6 billion over the course of the national development plan. Part of the funding that goes through the NTA into public transport will be deployed for park-and-ride facilities. Ms Graham will address that issue as well.